Although some communities had started agriculture, the majority kept their livestock in a nomadic manner since their geographical conditions were not favourable. The antique empires such as Macedonian, Persian, Rome, Mongols and the Seljukians, through healthy designed and functioning civilian and military bureaucracy of their era, reached enormous capacity to spread across many different continents with their cultural influence as well. Social and cultural aspects of the earlier hegemonic powers of their age commonly held by local authorities and people through some variations. Especially, religions such as Christianity and Islam spread fast and were adopted by masses.